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Hegseth confirmed as Trump's defense secretary in tie-breaking vote despite turmoil over his conduct

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Called it!

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We have a felon for President who appoints unqualified people for crucial positions. A man with just one desk level rank. And the orange butt kissing Repubs allow it. They will go down in history as the party that destroyed the United States.

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Hegseth is confirmed. Excellent!

Not let's get the others confirmed so we can really get the ball rolling.

Stop intentionally delaying political left.

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I am soooo stoked!! This is just fantastic news, no more wokeism, no more push for gender diversity, 2 sexes, both are expected to meet the exact same requirements and same standards as it should be.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/10/army-already-halfway-hitting-its-recruiting-goal-year.html

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We have a felon for President who appoints unqualified people for crucial positions.

Reagan was an actor, he learned and was one of the greatest Presidents ever

A man with just one desk level rank.

He will learn, we had for decades military leaders that had a ton of experience and did nothing but make things worse and brought morality down, time to try something different.

And the orange butt kissing Repubs allow it.

No, we the people wanted it. That’s why in November we decided to fire Biden’s administration

They will go down in history as the party that destroyed the United States.

It’s already semi-destroyed, time to fix all of it.

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Stop intentionally delaying political left.

LOL the hypocrisy, remeber when republicans couldnt even choose a speaker, remember all those shutdowns. get this every shut down weve had was under a republican president. Delaying

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desk level rank.

who never sat at a desk but instead deployed in combat to multiple armed conflicts as a leader of troops, earning Silver StarS.

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remember that Biden never had a shutdown and never had a recession in his 4yrs. goodluck with those tariffs LOL

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including particularly Kash Patel, a Trump ally who has published an enemies list, as the FBI director; Tulsi Gabbard as director of the office of national intelligence; and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine advocate,

media putting out the next target list.

They might “get” Tulsi and/or RFK Jr, who despite being lifelong Democrats will somehow likely get no Dem votes.

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who never sat at a desk but instead deployed in combat to multiple armed conflicts as a leader of troops, earning Silver StarS.

yet the least qualified of any Defense secretary in the last 4 administrations

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The narrowest defense secretary confirmation in history. I guess that is fitting for the president with one of the narrowest election wins in history.

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bass4funkToday 03:48 pm JST

We have a felon for President who appoints unqualified people for crucial positions.

Reagan was an actor, he learned and was one of the greatest Presidents ever

He was also a governor and union leader. He didn't fall ass backwards into power like some others. Also there is this we shall remember:

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

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Amazing there is so much DEI stuff in the Pentagon. That's the perfect recipe for a mass casualty event.

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MAGA bars for winning are so low

yet we keep…. winning.

Margin of winning is irrelevant, it’s binary. Win or lose.

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It’s funny hearing those who have now spent years whining about DEI and war mongers now cheering someone who clearly isn’t the best person for the job and whose ‘focus will be on war fighting’.

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yet the least qualified of any Defense secretary in the last 4 administrations

and I say actively leading troops in battle makes him more qualified than a retired desk General of failed wars and DEI coming from a defense contractor position.

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BlacklabelToday  03:56 pm JST

desk level rank.

who never sat at a desk but instead deployed in combat to multiple armed conflicts as a leader of troops, earning Silver StarS.

LOL. "Never sat behind a desk"...but is qualified to be the Secretary of Defense? That;s like hiring the janitor to be the school superintedent.

BTW- Major (mid level) is when you transition to desk.

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I've got the popcorn popping and am staying tuned to all this amusing drama. This admin is going to go straight off a cliff or make some positive changes, but changes, they are a comin'.

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remember that Biden never had a shutdown and never had a recession in his 4yrs. goodluck with those tariffs LOL

I remember Biden doing nothing that’s why he became a one term president.

He was also a governor and union leader. He didn't fall ass backwards into power like some others. Also there is this we shall remember:

But I remember how the left laughed at him in the beginning and called him a cowboy and an idiot, yeah, he turned that around real quick.

The narrowest defense secretary confirmation in history. I guess that is fitting for the president with one of the narrowest election wins in history.

Lol, a win is still a win, that’s why we call it a “win.”

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It’s funny hearing those who have now spent years whining about DEI

Gone now, finished, no more.

and war mongers

Not under Trump there wasn’t.

now cheering someone who clearly isn’t the best person for the job and whose ‘focus will be on war fighting’.*

That’s ok, he will learn and like everyone else that was a disappointment, it’s great to have an American first warrior and no a career politician to lead that department.

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focus will be on war fighting’.

no, its focus on the warfightER. And the warrior culture.

huge difference.

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focus will be on war fighting’.

no, its focus on the warfightER. And the warrior culture.

No. It’s a quote from the article. Read it.

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I think we're sort of being trolled on a national scale. Not much you can do but laugh at it.

Hard to tell what's the worst aspect: that he's an alcoholic, a woman-beater, or a jesus freak.

I'd have thought that even the hardest of hardcore MAGA people might have an issue with this, as they see themselves as America first - and putting an unqualified boozer in charge is actually going to make the country more vulnerable, not less so. But hey, there's me assuming that they think in terms of anything more complex than "My side won and your side lost".

The only positive is that it created a great new meme: he's not a DEI hire, he's a DUI hire.

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Hard to tell what's the worst aspect: that he's an alcoholic,

He’s sober now and been for 10 years

a woman-beater,

His ex-wife said, never happened, I thought we were supposed to believe all women.

or a jesus freak.

What’s wrong with being religious?

I'd have thought that even the hardest of hardcore MAGA people might have an issue with this, as they see themselves as America first

He had hearings, he explained himself, his ex-wife and current wife vouched for him, his military and TV colleagues did, so we all can change.

and putting an unqualified boozer in charge is actually going to make the country more vulnerable, not less so. *

What is Pete’s experience in transportation? Using DEI to put people at Boeing with no experience?

But hey, there's me assuming that they think in terms of anything more complex than "My side won and your side lost".

This is very true, but also, he convinced everyone except the crazy woman from Hawaii and the 3 usual Republican swamp rats

The only positive is that it created a great new meme: he's not a DEI hire, he's a DUI hire

Well, not anymore.

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I thought we were supposed to believe all women.

Except those including family members who gave an affidavit that they witnessed his physical abuse towards women? Not those ones, right?

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Except those including family members who gave an affidavit that they witnessed his physical abuse towards women?

When Tara Reid did so like you said, the Dems dismissed it, so I’m kind of confused, we shouldn’t believe family members when it’s a conservative congress, but believe them when the Dems are calling the shots in congress when they are speaking against a conservative.

Not those ones, right?

My, you guys are seriously all over the place.

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When Tara Reid did so like you said, the Dems dismissed it, so I’m kind of confused,

Clearly. You’re talking to me now, not ‘The Dems’.

we shouldn’t believe family members when it’s a conservative congress, but believe them when the Dems are calling the shots in congress when they are speaking against a conservative.

We should investigate all claims of violence against anybody. I’ve never said anything to the contrary, but still you’re confused.

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Clearly. You’re talking to me now, not ‘The Dems’.

But you’re not in the government, doesn’t matter

We should investigate all claims of violence against anybody.

They did, that was why and how this all came out.

I’ve never said anything to the contrary, but still you’re confused.

I’m not confused, I’m fine and very happy!

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